On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:10 -0500, Thompson, Bryan B. wrote:
> Hum. I think that testing for protocol conformance would be part of a
> data access test suite ... but, let's focus on the other question:
>
> "Can DAWG deliver a test suite for the query language?"
>
> It seems that unless there is a means to constrain what inference may
> be performed in response to a query, that the behavior of the query
> processor can not be tested.
Inference affects the input graph. Our tests state the input
graph explicitly. Given the input graph, the results of the
query are determined by the spec*.
* or... at least: I hope so;
the SOURCE designs seem to have multiple answers, and some
of the value testing designs do to; I sure hope we don't
choose those designs.
>
> I think that a standard that can not be tested would be likely to show
> lots of interoperability problems in the field.
>
> -bryan
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